Very sad today. Myles found out last night that his Mum has bowel cancer and it's spread to her liver. She is a lovely woman, very supportive and encouraging. I always say I have the best Mother-in-law. We are waiting for her to have a biopsy and see from there.
Whenever there is a trial or a test, I wonder what Satan's trying to do apart from the obvious and I wonder what God is doing to rescue us? There are lots of people involved so only they will truly know what God is doing in them during this time. For me, the timing is impeccable.
Myles and I took a first step yesterday in regards to our marriage and then this happens. It's like Satan is trying to keep us from doing something. With Myles' Mum sick, now is not the time to take this step. I could still pursue it but I know Myles needs me to love and support him right now. Yet I know this may accomplish the same goal. So what's the LORD doing?
I think the LORD will use this time to strengthen my love for Myles, focus on others, to remind me how blessed I am, and of what really matters.
One day you are smiling over flowers from your little son and the next day you are crying over your Mother-in-law's pain. I can remember a time when sickness didn't touch my life, when the greatest drama was family arguments. Now, there is sickness every year.
I was only just saying to the LORD last week that I am so over mourning, that I wanted to celebrate life and remember my loved ones who are all gone as Joel Osteen does. That they went to be with the LORD. And they are happiest where they are now.
If I am over mourning, then I have one final step to take, to let go of the past and set my eyes on the future he has for us, me and my loved ones.
It's ironic that my verse for this week is Jer 29:11. How can I see my mother-in-law's cancer as something positive? Because I believe the LORD will be with us, will meet our needs, and use this time to bring us all closer together. I know and believe the LORD doesn't want to harm us, but to help us.
Satan wants the opposite, he wants us to give up, to blame the LORD, to take our eyes off God and drown in the mayhem he wants to create. He wants to steal, kill and destroy us. He knows times like this either unite us or divide us. I choose to let it unite us no matter how hard it gets.
3 comments:
Hi Tali: first of all, please know that I will lift up your mother in law, and you and myles in my prayers.
Also: you are so right that satan wants to come to kill and destroy. I believe that he wants to do it spiritually and he doesn't win! WE do!! (with the power of Jesus!!). I don't know what the future holds for you or your extended family but you sound like a solid Christian....keep pressing on and God will continue to lift you up and carry you through this trial.
Thanks, Faith. Prayers would be great. I'm grateful, my man has a relationship with the LORD because he's our great provider. I wouldn't have coped with my Dad's cancer without the LORD. He understands us best.
Tali, lifting her up to the Throne, also know that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever----He does it still today, He does it still today....His will will be done!
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